1 412 WAY OF LIFE OF THE SHEPHERDS OF TOBA.
2 of Toba, which belongs to the Atchiksyes.. That extensive (tirtrict
3 is diversified and well ivooded. The giiM is.eicdleBit and abundant,
4 eHjd la mixed with a profusion, qf flowers ; and the climate is so mild
5 as scarcely to render shelter necessary either by niglu^ or day. lliia
6 agreeable country is covered in summer with camps of Dooraunees-
7 and Tereens, who all livp on the most friendly terms, visiting at each,
8 others camps, and mnkm;i ([ oqncnt limiting parties together. They
9 often invite each other to dinner at their camps, w lu i e the stran^rcrs
10 repair in tlu ir best clothes, and are receiveil with more ceioiTioiiy,
11 and attention than is usual in thp more familiar intercoiii so of iinine-
12 diate neighbours. On these occasions, conipauits ol' twelve oi fitieen
13 assemble to dine in the open sir, pass the evening with part of the
14 night in games, dancing, and songs, and separate without any of the
15 debauchery and consequent brawls which so often disturb the merri-
16 ment oi the common people in otlier countries. Their iare at that
17 period is luxurious to their taste : lamb is in season, and.cooroot
18 noaust f, curds, cream, cheese, butter^ and eveary thing that is pro-
19 chtoed fipom milky are in ainmdanoe. llnuithcj pass the aummflr;.
20 at last winter ippioadiea» snpw begins to &11 on the tops of the bilSs,
21 «n4 1]^ ahephefjb diqpene.to diflir distiint coontiifls^ to.UighaaMmnj.
22 tQ.Fiaheeni to,Eabaa|» and to die.boiden of the desart.
23 Yet tfaas.pcacofiil and sodable diqwaition must not be.ima^ned to>
24 aniBKte.liiepastoial tribes on. aU qepiaions: those wha.bhahit the
25 fionticr tofwaids.Feraia and Bdoehistann, are fiesoe and acdre in their
26 border wars. Even the Atchikzyes* whose ooontiy iSidie.scene.of.
27 the tranquil and simple, hfe I have, been describing are tiie most
28 Wttdik^ tmd by far the most predatoiy oi the. X)ooraunee tribe. TUa.
29 may seem inoonaiatent, but it is by no means the. first instsnoe'Of Ihe.
30 union of a predatory aod.mardal spirit with the innocanoe of * ptf-
31 tocal and even .within great degree of sensibilitj.to. the.chaima.
32 * Tlw harfwiwl curd already described.
33 f A sort of soft curd, which is slightly ad^ hut niy ^prtniMs to Ihs ImUl II ii cdW*
34 dhye in Indisi and yourt in Turkey. . ^
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